Alternative products to Metafact

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Metafact

Verify facts with the world's scientists

Metafact is a crowd-sourced fact-checking platform powered by the world's scientific community. Anyone can share an article, claim or question in science & technology - we source hundreds of verified experts to share the evidence and publish a consensus on whether it is fact or fiction.

Identify fake news sources on Facebook in Chrome

A red banner appears on the pages & headlines of any questionable source. It still manages to integrate itself seamlessly & I'd forgotten it was there until I saw this thread and checked what extensions I actually use!

Around the web

Lifehacker

Chrome: Facebook has a very real fake news problem. To help combat this, B.S. Detector will show a little red warning when you're about to click a link that comes from a questionable, "satirical" or fake news source.

TechCrunch

Not only is Facebook not providing little red warnings along with links to potentially specious news-it's now blocking links to the plugin that did. Over the past week, some Facebook users reported seeing content warnings next to links from established fake news domains, apparently without realizing a third party was responsible.

Motherboard

Last night, TechCrunch ran a story purporting that Facebook was showing certain users red warning labels above fake news links. But as it happens, this wasn't Facebook's doing at all, but rather the work of a Chrome plugin called B.S. Detector, made by activist and independent journalist Daniel Sieradski.

Breaking news according to political bias 🗞

Partial Press is a bias-aware news aggregator. Created as a drop-in replacement for Google News in the age of fake news. It marks breaking headlines as coming from liberal-friendly (blue) or conservative-friendly (red) news outlets. Like a health warning before you click 👩‍⚕️— to make you aware of where you get your daily intake. Uses NewsAPI.com.